Album Notes

Third-Temple.com - Techno Trance Music

Raphael Cohen, Producer of ThirdTemple was raised on electronic music for a big part of his life. "I was influenced by the New Wave bands of the 1980's like New Order and synthesizer bands like Kraftwerk, OMD, Yello, The Beastie Boys, Chemical Brothers and The Crystal Method in the 1990's. ThirdTemple project is about Electronic music that I was hoping the 80’s would bring, but didn’t. My Idea about this music started during 1984 when I was listening to Tears For Fears and Kraftwerk. The pulsating synths intrigued me. I wanted my favourite artists to take the music a bit further. It wasn’t until 1996 once computers were readily available that I started to wonder about making my own music."

The computer revolution of the last decade has given way to a proliferation of possibilities for musical artists to express themselves using software synthesizers and virtual samplers. Raphael, discovered and found inspiration in this new world and soon began producing Techno House Beats with his computer sampler. He grew these into an original Film music project, which he calls ThirdTemple.

The ThirdTemple project, employs layers upon layers of World Beat, Techno, House and Drum n Bass percussion and some serious synthesizer sounds, building a flowing soundscape that pulsates through to the soul. "I never make a track that I can't move and dance to... physically and mentally," says Raphael.

He pushes the boundaries of the genre, introducing instruments and samples that are not commonly used in modern
Techno film music. Exotic African drum beats and Latin grooves are only a small part of the arsenal he uses to make his beats come alive. One might expect to hear his raw, unabashed grooves on an action movie soundtrack or on a pumping European dance floor.